Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.